Capua

Capua: important ancient city southwest of Rome, modern Santa Maria di Capua Vetere.

Origins

Clay portrait of a man

Located in the plain behind Naples, now called the Campania (after Capua; the ancient connected the name "Capua" to "campus", plain)

Ninth-century Iron Age (Oscian) settlement between the Greek towns on the coast and the Samnites in the mountains; Velleius Paterculus (who was probably born in Capua) records its foundation in 801 BCE.note[Velleius Paterculus, Roman History 1.7.2.]

Etruscan dynasty in the second half of the sixth century: two parts, Oscian Albana and Etruscan Seplasia